General, of the Schleswig-Holstein Army, 585

Window Love.--_By Charles G. Leland_, 544

Women and Literature in France, 193

Wordsworth's New Poem.--_The Examiner_, 271

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INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY MISCELLANY

Of Literature, Art, and Science.

Vol. I. NEW YORK, JULY 1, 1850. No. 1.

INTRODUCTION.

Of the revolutions of the age, one of the most interesting and important
is that which has taken place in the forms of Literature and the Modes
of its Publication. Since the establishment of the _Edinburgh Review_
the finest intelligences of the world have been displayed in
periodicals. Brougham, Jeffrey, Sidney Smith, Mackintosh, Macaulay, have
owed nearly all their best fame to compositions which have appeared
first in journals, magazines and reviews; the writers of Tales and
Essays have uniformly come before the public by the same means, which
have recently served also for the original exhibition of the most
elaborate and brilliant Fictions, so that we are now receiving through
them by almost every ship from Europe installments of works by Dickens,
Bulwer, James, Croly, Lever, Reynolds, Mrs. Marsh, Mrs. Ellis, and
indeed nearly all the most eminent contemporary novelists. So complete
is the change, that all mind, except the heaviest and least popular, is
likely to flow hereafter through the Daily, Weekly, Monthly or Quarterly
Miscellanies, which compete with universities, parliaments, churches,
and libraries, for ascendency in the government of mankind.

In this country we must keep pace with the movements abroad. It will not
answer that we issue literary productions as soon as possible after
their completion. The impatient readers demand chapters by chapters, as
they are spun from the brain and the heart of the author; facts, upon
the instant of their discovery; and suggestions, as they flash from the
contact of imagination and reflection.

The INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY MISCELLANY will be a result of efforts to
satisfy a plain necessity of the times. It will combine the excellencies
of all contemporary peri